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1. 

   john
   Member

   Prit,

   1. in a previous post I asked if urls including index.php would be considered clean. If I remember well, your answer was yes as long as the url doesn't make use of queries ? to pass parameters.

   In any case, I made some research and none of the sites I visited include php filename and extensions as part of the url (I don't think they rely on .htaccess for this)

   2. the second point I wanted to understand better, is the way you are using titles in urls and their usefulness.

   It seems to me that in Pritlog's approach titles don't matter, since the url always uses viewEntry/postid/ to locate the correct post

   On the other hand urls like
   http://www.hotscripts.com/listing/sqlite3-database-manager
   seems to rely entirely on titles to link to the correct page

   I appreciate your comments and your patience for returning to this largely discussed topic :)

   Posted 3 years ago #
2. 

   Prit
   Pritlogger

   Hi John ..

   As far as I know, all these sites cannot get rid of the index.php or whatever their php script name is from the url without depending on .htaccess. Or another way is rename index.php as blog.php and use blog instead of blog.php in the url and this should still work. As an example, you can see the below Pritlog installation.
   http://letsthink.cc/blog/mainPage

   When I started clean-urls, I did not have the entryname parameter. Pritlog detected this from the title. But then, this causes lot of additional code to handle duplicate titles, detect titles etc. But using the entryname in the url makes it very easy and avoids these extra code and complication.

   Also, the purpose of clean urls is to make it easy on the search engines and be friendly with their robots. I believe that the current format of the Pritlog urls achieves this unless someone can prove otherwise.

   Posted 3 years ago #
3. 

   john
   Member

   Hi Prit,

   I've to agree that index.php being part of the url doesn't impact the chances to improve ranking with search engines.

   After more reading about SEO subjects, I'did some extra research I share with you:

   MY TRAFFIC LOG:

   1. over 90% of the keywords that people typed in search engines to reach some of my pages are those I used in the post title

   2. google and yahoo robots keep visiting the site at least a couple of times every day.

   3. some of my pages (posts) ranked pretty high without any help from external links

   FIRST CONCLUSIONS - the 3 factors under my control that help to get better ranking:

   1. Using good titles for your posts. (Pritlog reuses the post title "phrase" 3 times (as page title in <TITLE>, as part of the url, and as the first <Hx> title in the visible content) which seems something search engines like)

   2. Post content has to be relevant and consistent with topic suggested in the title

   3. Content freshness (at minimum, I try to add a couple new posts every 2 days)

   Factors not under my control:
   - number of external links pointing to my site (of course I could engage in a marketing campaign to promote link exchange with other sites but what I'm trying to analyze here is cause and effect of things I do on my site only)

   CHANGE OF PARADIGM - the game is always played at the page level:

   1. one of the most significant insights I got is to forget about the "site" concept

   2. what search engines realy rank are individual PAGES = POSTS for specific keywords = your TITLE PHRASE

   3. want a better ranking ? micromanage what happens at the page level

   4. it seems better to chose less competitive titles, able to rank within the first 3 result pages and build a "niche" traffic for those keywords

   5. using wrong or too common phrases with too much competition, will rank your page too low, with almost no chances to be visited

   Posted 3 years ago #
4. 

   Prit
   Pritlogger

   Thanks for doing the research John.

   So, folks who want to get higher in search engines, choose the post title appropriately, try researching and finding an almost unique title that has less competition.

   Posted 3 years ago #
5. 

   john
   Member

   Hi Prit,

   Among other things, still experimenting with seo recommendations.
   Question re. Meta Description in page header:

   - I would like to implement a "dynamic meta description" ONLY when displaying single posts (viewEntry mode), using some text extracted from the post content itself ($content)

   - First I tried to modify the viewEntry() function, but then I realized that due the flow of the code header is sent before php parses the function into the body section

   What approach would you suggest ?

   Posted 3 years ago #
6. 

   Prit
   Pritlogger

   Hi John ..

   Sorry, I was traveling and hence could not read the forums. You can write a function to create the meta description and call this from the header location and call it only if the option is "viewEntry".

   Posted 3 years ago #
7. 

   john
   Member

   Any function I could write would have to read the db to get the same $content the viewEntry function does, requiring duplicate access to the db.

   The first solution I was thinking about was to reposition the viewEntry and mainLogic functions before the start of the html header, to get $content before the header part is parsed.

   But speaking more generally: do you anticipate any conflict if I flip the script flow moving all functions above the <html> start ?

   Posted 3 years ago #
8. 

   Prit
   Pritlogger

   Hi John .. You can move the functions around as you like and it will still work. But, if you want to use the viewEntry code itself for the meta, then you might have to call it before the html head and modify the function also.

   Posted 3 years ago #

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